Full Recline Streamliner

[donpearsall]

Here is an example of a full reclining streamliner with no draggy windshield to slow you down! Just a small camera and a video display. I have often thought about this but wonder if there are any SCTA or AMA rules against it.
Has anyone done this?   

Don

[fissionspeed]

I remember seeing an article about a periscope view car at bonneville a few years ago but it was my understanding they were no longer allowed?

[stay`tee]

i have been told, laying prone like that and using visual aids, plays tricks on your mind with balance, you crash 

[Stainless1]

There have been periscope cars and yes motorcycles... the bike I think was the Arrow... and may still hold a record... They had their issues...
The main problem is finding the course if you get a bad start or the wind drifts you at the gap.  Everything out there looks the same...
I think the BNI made them demonstrate that they could see the required amount.

[WOODY@DDLLC]

It was Team Arrow!

[kiwi belly tank]

A camera or periscope is not accepted by SCTA. My liner has no driver popup, is 4WD with the windshield in the nose & side windows to cover the 120 degree rule, visibility is plenty good enough.
Can somebody post a pic for me?'
  Sid.

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Sid's winders! 

[Rex Schimmer]

Our lakester has "no draggy windshield" quoting Don but Duke doesn't have a problem with seeing the course. As he says "I'm not on the freeway looking for cars that are passing me!" His vision is an oblong slot about 5-6 inches high and 20 inched long. Checkout this vid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS1OmxZlDvA and you can see the slot that he is looking through. He has redone some of the switch and instrument mounts so it is a bit larger.

Rex

[kiwi belly tank]

Thanks Woody!
People have been building lakesters without a driver popup for years. It's easy when the wheels are outside the body but it becomes a packaging problem with inside wheels on a liner & even more so with 30" tires & 4WD. The driver ahead of the front wheels has been done but it wasn't a configuration I even considered building. I raced a conventional rear seat hydroplane back in the 80's & couldn't get comfortable in a forward control pickle fork boat, being ahead of the pivot point with no directional reference point didn't give me feedback until it got excessive.
  Sid.

[aircap]

Wasn't the Raspberry Rocket a laydown lakester?

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Sid, your comments remind me of the early Dodge vans where the driver sat over the front axle.
It took a while to re-learn how to do donuts in those! 

Other variations on the theme...
Liberty Garage was pitted next to Rex & Duke!